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What Can a Popular Pope Do About Climate Change?
The Atlantic ^ | December 30, 2014 | Nicholas St. Fleur

Posted on 12/31/2014 6:26:34 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The pontiff plans to issue a rare and controversial plea for Catholics to consider the environment. Recent polls show his message just might resonate.

Pope Francis has ambitious environmental plans for 2015. Come March, he will deliver a 50 to 60-page edict urging his 1.2 billion Catholic followers to take action against climate change. The Pontiff will make his announcement during his visit to the Philippian city of Tacloban, which was ravaged by typhoon Haiyan, which killed thousands in 2013.

But within his global congregation, many conservative Catholics are expected to oppose the pope’s environmental views.

The message comes months in advance of the next United Nations climate meeting, which is slated to begin November 2015 in Paris. The pope’s lead scientific adviser Bishop Marcelo Sorondo, said that the pope’s message to his bishops, called an encyclical, is supposed to influence world leaders as they make their final recommendations after 20 years of negotiating how to reduce global carbon emissions, The Guardian reported. “The idea is to convene a meeting with leaders of the main religions to make all people aware of the state of our climate,” Sorondo said to Cafod, the Catholic development agency, of the pope’s plans....

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: catholics; climatechange; environment; globalwarming; philippines; popefrancis; unitednations; vatican
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1 posted on 12/31/2014 6:26:34 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nothing and furthermore he has not even written the letter yet, so who cares?


2 posted on 12/31/2014 6:30:08 AM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He can recognize the enviro-whacko movement will NEVER do anything to reduce poverty.

They promote a long list of evils that are contrary to Christianity:

Population Control,
Economic Oppression,
Propping up dictators who steal from the needy,
Crushing the energy development necessary to grow cultures out of poverty.
etc...

Did I mention THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING!!!


3 posted on 12/31/2014 6:39:04 AM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: G Larry

He’s an Argentine Socialist.
End of story.


4 posted on 12/31/2014 6:49:22 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

A socialist, and therefore he’s got his soteriology all wrong. Yes, he’s the pope, but he’s wrong.

We are not collectively saved through our advocacy to save the erf from the evils of capitalism.


5 posted on 12/31/2014 6:51:07 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Pontiff will make his announcement during his visit to the Philippian city of Tacloban

Didn't St. Paul admonish us to fight climate change in his letter to the Taclobanians?

6 posted on 12/31/2014 6:54:11 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: MrB

How I miss the Polish Pope.
He had seen enough of Socialism...


7 posted on 12/31/2014 6:54:20 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/533/copernicus-galileo-and-the-church-science-in-a-religious-world


8 posted on 12/31/2014 6:55:59 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think The Pope should Pray for Guidance to the Lord, Everyday, Everyday, Everyday, He just might be getting in over his Head.
May God enlighten his mind and thinking.


9 posted on 12/31/2014 7:02:59 AM PST by chatham
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Start with all that incense burning...


10 posted on 12/31/2014 7:10:11 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry CHRISTmas!!)
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To: chatham

Well, He DID provide us guidance in the form of His Word.
It’s not like it’s a secret or anything.


11 posted on 12/31/2014 7:11:19 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
"He’s an Argentine Socialist. End of story."

Bingo! If he is not careful, he is going to end up being a voice for oppression and poverty through spreading the anthropogenic global warming fraud and forced redistribution schemes.

12 posted on 12/31/2014 7:14:09 AM PST by Truth29
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If the pope really wants to save the world he needs to concentrate on spreading the unfiltered, unadulterated Gospel. I don’t suppose he really understands that.


13 posted on 12/31/2014 7:23:28 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: G Larry

>> They promote a long list of evils that are contrary to Christianity <<

You forgot the following, which may be the most damning of all their characteristics:

The “Environmentalists” are basically a cult of nature worshippers, whereas Judaism and Christianity have always (until now?) taught that God has given man a status superior to the animals and the rest of “nature.”

Looked at another way, their worship of “nature” and “Gaia” puts the Environmentalists in the same category as the Wiccans, animists and assorted other pagans.


14 posted on 12/31/2014 7:26:39 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Hahaha. ..thanks for the laugh


15 posted on 12/31/2014 8:12:44 AM PST by goodnesswins (2015)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sounds like he has picked up on that Fatwa thing ....just make something up and then issue a “religious edict” requiring all the peasants to act....works for the heathens.


16 posted on 12/31/2014 8:16:09 AM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Benghazi Clinton killed 4 & injured a dozen as SOS, imagine what she could do as CinC.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Francis Appears to Be Death Warmed Over.


17 posted on 12/31/2014 8:22:21 AM PST by bunkerhill7 (re (`("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

NOTHING!


18 posted on 12/31/2014 8:24:24 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pope Urban VIII also assaulted the Scientific Method when condemning Galileo in 1615. I will say, however, his errors were quickly revised when Pope John Paul II reversed this condemnation in 1992. Maybe Pope Francis will be so lucky.


19 posted on 12/31/2014 8:24:40 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

For the Pope to engage in this kind of activism is akin to him becoming a shaman doing a rain dance to try changing the weather…


20 posted on 12/31/2014 8:54:42 AM PST by mikrofon (Happy New Year BUMP)
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